Zucker is chairing the section committee for Disorders of Gender and Sexuality. He's the overall chair of the group-as-a-whole. The section is divided into three areas and the chairs listed above are chairs of the working groups designated for those particular areas.
And, TBH, it looks like the big fight will be between Zucker & Kittinis about tx for children. It's a huge issue as can be seen from the NPR selections about Bradley and Violet in the "News" section.
Blanchard and Drescher will be there to discuss and fight over adults and the brain sex/sexuality etiologies of GID.
My guess is the the Clarke is trying to get their psychoanalytic parameters accepted and their position does look strong, but someone sought some balance in the equation by adding Kittinis and Drescher.
The entire affair helps make sense about the inclusion of Alice Dreger's hatchet-job in Archives of Sexual Behavior and the article by Bailey and Triii in the Johns Hopkins sponsored magazine. They are trying to lay the groundwork.
These people are not going to stop until they win or get staked through the heart. They perceive their arguments, apparently, as "the salvation of society and psychoanalytic psychology." And no matter what you believe about yourself and others transitioning or transitioned what we are seeing is this backlash effort by that group to "put women and men back in order." Late/early, primary/secondary, men/women, women or TS/TG, however you see yourself and however you feel about the others if their views prevail those views ARE going to cut you as well as the other groups.
Short-range thinking like that exhibited in the post on Beyond's thread by Laura Eva that suggested that 'dangerous' autogynephiles can be weeded out of the process don't get to the heart of the matter. In fact they ignore the heart in order to lash out at what the one group perceives somehow as a group that will 'hurt' them getting a comeuppance from the baddies.
The baddies are going after us all and you need to see that. And they are going after women as well as being somehow innately inferior and in need of proper training. Zucker makes no bones about wanting to 'cure' every child who comes through his 'clinic.' And given the SOP of the Clarke I am finding it difficult to make a distinction between he and Blanchard when it comes to HSTS/>-bleeped-<TS.
To think that "this doesn't affect me, just those folks like THAT" is ludicrous in the extreme. It WILL affect you, post-pre-op wherever you find yourself. And if you think this will not affect 'real' women, where you, of course, are going to place yourself, you are deluding yourself. If allowed to be placed into the manual you will see other attempts to rollback thirty years of progress for women, trans men and women and gays and lesbians.
This really does "require" more unity than we have ever had before. It doesn't matter whether you think of yourself as HBS or not. The roots of this run much deeper than many are getting that they, the roots, go.
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